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From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: GNU Emacs List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: (goto-char ...) error
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:47:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D63E896.5010503@mousecar.com> (raw)

Performing one search, I save the result with

(setq ptname (re-search-forward ...))

Then I want to back up one character and perform another search, so I do

(goto-char (- ptname 1))

But this pukes an error.  What's unkosher here?


tnx.



             reply	other threads:[~2011-02-22 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-22 16:47 ken [this message]
2011-02-22 17:31 ` (goto-char ...) error Deniz Dogan
2011-02-22 18:24   ` ken
2011-02-22 18:45     ` Deniz Dogan
2011-02-22 19:22       ` ken
2011-02-22 19:45         ` Deniz Dogan
2011-02-22 20:55           ` Drew Adams
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1.1298402588.16069.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-22 22:50         ` Tim X
     [not found]   ` <mailman.11.1298399070.22047.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-22 22:27     ` Tim X
     [not found] <mailman.3.1298393577.375.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-02-22 22:15 ` Tim X

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